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Virgil H:
I rarely make it to this part of the forum, so apologies for such a late response. One book I have is not on Peter's list and it is:

Athenian Vase Construction: A Potters Analysis by Tony Schreiber, published in 1999 by the J. Paul Getty Museum.

It is a great book on types and construction, maybe not so much on the specifics you are looking for. It does have detailed specifics of pottery types, as well as how they were decorated. I do think you would like it if you have access to get it from a library or something. I made a Kylix once that never got finished because I realized I was not a painter and never got far enough to figure out how to glaze it before I knocked it off the table and into a million pieces. The basic kylix I was quite proud of. But it made me realize that pottery shops probably had the potters and the painters as two separate skill sets. There are simple Greek pottery painting styles that is what I may have ended up doing if I hadn't destroyed it. But I was kind of fixated on the pictorial stuff as on your beautiful examples. Owning some Greek pottery is high on my list of things I would buy if I ever win the lottery, I just love it.

And a great book on death rituals I have is:

Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History) by Ian Morris, Cambridge University Press, 1992. I can't find it at the moment and it has been a while, but it is pretty good and a scientific view as seen via archaeology. If I can locate it, I will look and give you some more info.

Here is a pic of that kylix when it was still "wet."

Regards,
Virgil

SC:
Beautiful!

SC

Enodia:
Here's a good book on Greek death rituals and traditions...

https://www.librarything.com/work/411658/book/12682015

~ Peter

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